Birg

he/him | idk whatever | 30s

[birgenworth]

Call me Birg.

he/him, TME

USAmerican and very unhappy about it

Learning Mandarin Chinese (#birg's mandarin journey)

Transfeminist and Marxist-Leninist

Personal posts tagged #birg talk

I believe in god but like in a cool way

If you're anti-AI in a way that implies art either possesses or lacks a soul don't talk to me

[adastrabbit]

"hogwash" still one of the best words ever. this shit is so unbelievable its pig water

[furryprovocateur]

happy thursday

[hyenaswine]

i think people are starting to confuse class analysis with bioessentialism. like... no not all men do this, but Men as a constructed social class do do this. that's still okay to say. that is regular material analysis of the world around us.

[pending-trans-action-2]

You losers like rick and morty, while I like em thick and portly

[sawed-on-shotgun]

the human body when you use it and exist in it

[commiesofia]

[star-mom-selkie]

happy pride month

[star-angel-selkie]

this one kinda hurts when i see it every pride month. im glad to see an art piece of mine still circulating, and with nearly 100,000 notes too! it just hurts that im separated from it. everyone in the notes thinks im gone. im still here, but my potential community and connection is lost because im forgotten in place of the art. yeah, my deactivated profile does add to the profoundness of what i was saying, but i am still removed.

[star-angel-selkie]

wow this kinda got a lot of attention huh. thank you all for your kindness. im happy to be here still, and im not leaving!

[qin-shi-huang-di]

Bixia, I your humble servant bring word from General Meng Tian at the Wall. There is a noble woman from the state of Qi approaching Your Most August Highness's Great Wall #yourmostaugusthighnessgreatwall, calling herself Lady Meng Jiang. She seeks her husband, named Wan Xiliang, whom you had personally summoned to, ahem, Work on the Wall. When we tell her that we cannot find him, she bursts into tears and these tears seem to be breaking the bricks when they hit the ground. We fear if she cries on the wall, she will break the wall. What should we do, O August Sovereign?

proceed as normal! some weepy broad lamenting her dead husband is no basis to halt construction!

[qin-shi-huang-di]

by Heaven this can't be happening

[birgenworth]

After digging through the settings I realize I've spent more money in 6 months on Where Winds Meet than I have in 10 years playing FF14. what the fuck

[birgenworth]

I mean now that I have more or less gotten the cosmetics I want from the gacha store I think I'm probably gonna slow down my spending anyway but jesucristo that's a wake up call if I've ever seen one

[birgenworth]

After digging through the settings I realize I've spent more money in 6 months on Where Winds Meet than I have in 10 years playing FF14. what the fuck

[playwrongs]

Our culture desperately needs more fat hot gay guys. Not for any noble reasons of representation; I’m just a pervert

[mattpresents]

How do you know you're not Asexual? Maybe you just haven't met the right nobody.

[aroaceenjolras]

This "allosexuality" thing is just a phase. You just need to have really bad sex, and then maybe you'll change your mind.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Ok, thought experiment:

You have two TTRPGs, Adventures & Aberrations, and Brigands & Bloodshed.

A&A has a well-known, glaring flaw in its rules as written, which results in critical hits being worse across the board for every player character, always, despite the rules presenting critical hits as particularly damaging. The solution is well-known and a standard house rule the entire community knows about.

B&B has the exact same rules, except that the critical hit rules have been fixed.

In both games, you are instructed that you can change the rules if you wish.

Is B&B a better game than A&A, or does the fact that you can houserule away the difference mean that they are equally good games?

[tpwrtrmnky]

Suppose, for the sake of the thought experiment, that "I like when critical hits suck" is an incorrect opinion for these games.

[vriska-coded]

My personal opinion, except my opinions about ttrpg design are always correct (obvious /j there)

B&B is better. Here are the reasons:

- A game “instructing you that you may change the rules” is frankly irrelevant because you can do that with any tabletop game. Nobody asks Hasbro if they can play Uno with stacking +2s and +4s.

-Not everybody that plays a game is a part of whatever nebulous “community” exists around it, especially in the modern era of TTRPGs where you can buy a game online and play with your friends while never speaking to a single other person about it. Those players are deprived of the house rule, especially if they are not adept enough at game design to fix it themselves.

-Fundamentally, a game which more competently achieves its design goals is a “better game” if we are trying to assess something as subjective as game design by objective standards.

TLDR: if I buy a game and it’s not a playtest draft, I shouldn’t need to go on reddit or join a discord for it to function properly.

[zitongzi]

To borrow a joke from a now defunct webcomic, saying skyrim is game of the year becauuse of the mods is like saying the honda civic is car of the year because of the after market parts

[birgenworth]

All I'm saying is if you were actually concerned about incest and stopping it from happening in real life you would be advocating for the dissolution of the nuclear family and the dismantling of patriarchy which both enable and empower sexual abusers to actually abuse blood relatives in real life and not harassing random trans women en masse for getting off to fictional smut you think is icky

[birgenworth]

"they finally added a himbo character"

> looks inside

> it's a twink who's kinda tall

[lord-kitschener]

[bintilleil-deactivated20200510]